SL Letter of the Day: Almost Sorry | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper. I was listening to the radio yesterday morning and I heard your interview with Beth McDonald. I have been thinking about it a lot since then and I feel compelled to share my thoughts with you. I was saddened and frustrated with your comments regarding people of faith and their perpetuation of bulling.
As someone who loves the Lord and does not support gay marriage I can honestly say I was heartbroken to hear about the young man that took his own life after being humiliated by people who should have known better. I think you need to be aware of your own prejuduces and how they might play into your thinking.
At best I think your comments were hypocritical. If your message is that we should not judge people based on their sexual preferance, how do you justify judging entire groups of people for any other reason (including their faith)? I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments. No, wait. A question: do you support atheist marriage? Real gay and lesbian children. And now a song... Libertarianism Makes You Stupid. Seth Finkelstein August 1997 What is Libertarianism?
- a critic's view People who venture into electronic discussion areas will invariable encounter an ideology called Libertarianism. In fact, it is said Libertarianism (pro, con, and internal faction fights) is *the* primordial netnews discussion topic. Anytime the debate shifts somewhere else, it must eventually return to this fuel source. So what is this belief-set, and why is it so popular in certain subcultures?
From proponents, you might be told The Libertarian way is a logically consistent approach to politics based on the moral principle of self-ownership. However, I regard the Libertarianism as a kind of business-worshiping cultish religion, which churns out annoying flamers who resemble nothing so much as street-preachers on the Information Sidewalk. To start off, Libertarianism is highly axiomatic. Libertarian proselytizers will preach some warm-and-fuzzy story such as Now, how many ideologies have you ever heard state anything like. SL Letter of the Day: Almost Sorry | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper.
I was listening to the radio yesterday morning and I heard your interview with Beth McDonald. I have been thinking about it a lot since then and I feel compelled to share my thoughts with you. I was saddened and frustrated with your comments regarding people of faith and their perpetuation of bulling. As someone who loves the Lord and does not support gay marriage I can honestly say I was heartbroken to hear about the young man that took his own life after being humiliated by people who should have known better. I think you need to be aware of your own prejuduces and how they might play into your thinking. At best I think your comments were hypocritical. I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments. No, wait. A question: do you support atheist marriage? Real gay and lesbian children. Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate?
Did that hurt to hear? And now a song... But right now Tony Perkins is being strangely silent. 10 Obvious Truths/Wilfully Ignored. - s.l. rose. How Americans spread the wealth. Amid raucous political debate over tax cuts for the rich and who owns most of America's wealth, university researchers have found at least one reason why we suffer such bruising public policy stalemates in this country. When it comes to wealth inequity in the United States, we just don't know what we're talking about. Two professors, psychologist Michael Norton from Harvard Business School and behavioral economist Daniel Ariely at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, surveyed more than 5,500 Americans who had been chosen at random to create a nationally representative sample. Those surveyed were asked to do two things. First, they had to estimate the current distribution of wealth in the United States.
And second, they were asked to "build a better America" by spreading the nation's wealth among five quintiles, poorest to richest, based on their own, ideal or optimal level of inequality. • First, those surveyed grossly underestimated the current level of wealth inequality.